This blog is an ongoing record of traveling world with bamboo bike and starting / growing up social enterprise,"Bamboo Samurai". Bamboo Samurai will make bamboo bike and attractive bamboo products by using only Japanese bamboo. I will contribute to develop craftsmanship, coexist with bamboo forests in Japan and to build ecological world all over the world. I am loving Nature, biking, and bamboo. Please keep supporting Bamboo Samurai! Bamboo Samurai Founder,Takashi

December 17, 2010

Jet lag has been suffered me, suddenly I felt sleepiness, sometimes I felt sleepiness during the day, sometimes I felt strong sleepiness after lunch andd dinner, also sometimes still woke up early morning, 1:30a.m.,2:30a.m.,3:30a.m. Oops... I stayed as if I was still in United States.

Since back to Japan I have cooked own breakfast. I cooked "My aunt morning special" every morning.
the recipe; 1/2 tomato, 1 egg, 3 sausages, 1/2 avocado, a bunch of onion, a bunch of cheese, on the bagel. I ate 4 bagels every morning. My aunt taught me this recipe the next day of arrival at her home in Tokyo. I enjoyed myself cooking breakfast much, also it tasted tyo delicious. Will I challenge to cook lunch? dinner? hmm..of course!

Since arriving back at Japan,I and bamboo bike2 continue to run together around Komae city in Tokyo, for a few hours every early morning. We have often run along a river, the Nogawa River, there I can see some water birds, see steam rising from the face of the river, also beautiful sunrise, and Mt.Fuji. I enjoyed biking with bamboo bike2 also in Tokyo. Tokyo was not so cold yet compared to in Illinois, Kentucky, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York.
Yesterday I met Hiro, who works at Japanese media company and has been taking video of my journey with bamboo bike. I met him and cameraman in Shinjuku, one of the biggest district in Tokyo, I was interviewed and taken video there by him. After that we ate dinner. Hiro is working a documentary about "Bamboo bike and me" since this August. Today's shooting and interview were the last ones. He will accomplish that documentary soon, also that video produced by him will be set on air on January 10,2011, at 23:30-24:00, BS-TBS, in Japan. Also that video will be his first work of his career. I am feeling happy to appear on his first screen. Of course, I and bamboo bike are looking forward to seeing that video.

Also I am constructing fundraising system via "causes" on facebook for my Bamboo donation.
I want to donate bamboo plants and bamboo dinningwares to church in San Francisco with my gratitude. Also I am writing thesis of University for graduation, and must study for an admission examination. Also in Japan there is a traditional ceremony in December, "Bonen Kai", this is a party, to eat nice foods, drink beer, Sake, talk about the happening which ocurred in this year 2010, and to welcome New Year. Depend on individuals, Japanese people usually participate in "Bonen Kai" 2 or 3 times in December, some people more times. I also must participate this party this year.

With Samsoon pig, this pig is tyo pretty, which appeared in Korean TV drama, "My lovely Samsoon", one of my favorite drama. Whenever I see this pig, that let me feel peace, let me forget busy time.